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Improving Depression Treatment for Older Minority Adults

NCT00570427 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 30

Last updated 2009-02-25

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of this study is to improve access to quality depression care for older, low-income, minority adults in public sector health care. The study will examine current depression care in a public sector geriatric clinic that serves mostly Spanish-speaking Latinos and pilot study assessments and treatments in order to lay the groundwork for a large study of quality improvement for depressed older minorities

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Problem Solving Therapy (PST)

Counseling

BEHAVIORAL

Medication Management

If a participant chooses to receive antidepressant medication while in the study, a depression care specialist works with the participant's usual primary care provider to initiate an appropriate prescription and to follow-up with side effects, adherence, efficacy, etc. on a monthly or biweekly basis.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Isabel T. Lagomasino, MD MSHS · Department of Psychiatry, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
60 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2007-02-28
Primary Completion
2008-06-30
Completion
2008-06-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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